Crystal Palace are set to be ‘demoted’ to the Europa Conference League – with Nottingham Forest likely to leapfrog them into the Europa League.
French side Lyon this afternoon announced that they had won their appeal against their relegation from Ligue 1.
Had the decision stood, it would have meant that Palace, the FA Cup winners, would have been in next season’s Europa League.
This means the south London side are set to be ‘relegated’ to the third-tier competition thanks to UEFA’s rules on multi-club ownership.
